Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) famous.

Adjective

(er)

(label) Pure, unalloyed .

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.8:

So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion.

* , I.56:

Meere .

(label) Nothing less than; complete, downright .

* , II.3.7:

If every man might have what he wouldwe should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.

Just, only; no more than , pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.

*

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.

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Adjective

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* Chapman

By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.

* Spenser

As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

* Milton

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

(obsolete) Outward.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:

Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:

So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .

Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness

* Atterbury

They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

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